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diff --git a/Doc/library/io.rst b/Doc/library/io.rst index 8e6e601..b71bfd4 100644 --- a/Doc/library/io.rst +++ b/Doc/library/io.rst @@ -764,13 +764,13 @@ Text I/O ``''``, ``'\n'``, ``'\r'``, and ``'\r\n'``. It works as follows: * When reading input from the stream, if *newline* is ``None``, - :term:`universal newlines` mode is enabled. Lines in the input can end - in ``'\n'``, - ``'\r'``, or ``'\r\n'``, and these are translated into ``'\n'`` before - being returned to the caller. If it is ``''``, universal newlines mode is - enabled, but line endings are returned to the caller untranslated. If it - has any of the other legal values, input lines are only terminated by the - given string, and the line ending is returned to the caller untranslated. + :term:`universal newlines` mode is enabled. Lines in the input can end in + ``'\n'``, ``'\r'``, or ``'\r\n'``, and these are translated into ``'\n'`` + before being returned to the caller. If it is ``''``, universal newlines + mode is enabled, but line endings are returned to the caller untranslated. + If it has any of the other legal values, input lines are only terminated + by the given string, and the line ending is returned to the caller + untranslated. * When writing output to the stream, if *newline* is ``None``, any ``'\n'`` characters written are translated to the system default line separator, |